Welcome to Live and Learn!
I am Dorothea Bassett, a professional Kinesiologist with over 30 years experience. I am passionate about helping people live to their full potential. I am an excellent teacher, and I have developed a broad skill set within a large variety of natural therapies and techniques.
I provide you with solid treatment strategies and study programs that connect you with your innate healing powers.
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What is Kinesiology
The two main principles forming the foundation for Kinesiology are:
That we believe an individual has a life force or vital energy (known as ‘Chi’ by the Chinese, ‘Prana’ by the Yogis, and ‘Elan Vital’ by the French)
The subconscious brain holds all our memories, information about our physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and energetic status, as well as determining our level of muscle tension. Stresses cause interference in the electrical impulses in the nervous system, so a change in the muscle response during muscle monitoring can therefore be an indicator that there is a negative stress in the system being investigated and monitored.
Kinesiology is holistic in it’s approach, treating both the symptoms and the real cause of the symptoms. Using gentle muscle monitoring, a kinesiologist can detect where the stresses lie that are behind the presenting symptoms. Stresses can be things such as: emotional issues- present or past, physical injuries from past or present, organ, hormonal or glandular disturbance, imbalance in the energy meridian system, or the chakra or auric energy fields, nutritional deficiencies, toxins or intestinal flora imbalances, behavioural issues, addictions, mental worries, spiritual discontent or neglect to name but a few. Because of the holistic nature of kinesiology treatments, it can assist and restore homeostasis with almost any dysfunction.
Benefits include gaining personal insights and connecting with one’s spiritual side (the conscious mind becoming more aware of the subconscious background). It can produce profound healing results. and that health can be restored once the energy system is maintaining balance. Conversely, when the energy system is out of balance, health will be compromised, and disease may ensue. Changes in the Subtle Energy system will show up before manifesting as disease or disorders.
How Kinesiology Can Help
Dorothea Bassett worked with adults and children on any issue: physical, mental, emotional, social or spiritual. She has successfully helped hundreds of people overcome big life challenges:
- Attract the right life partner / improve harmony in current relationship
- Boost self-acceptance and confidence
- Reduce feelings of anxiety or depression
- Achieve new levels of success in career & business
- Experience gains in learning/processing difficulties, eg, Dyslexia, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder
- Reduce the symptoms caused by chronic physical conditions
- Resolve compulsive behaviours and addictions, eg, smoking, drinking and over-eating
- Heal childhood trauma and past hurtful experiences that impact day-to-day life
Kinesiology and Children
Children are constantly learning and growing. Each new challenge a child encounters and overcomes builds their character and sense of self. Naturally sometimes life brings challenges that are overwhelming, and we may think we don’t know how to deal with it. When children have these experiences and don’t find a way forward, they can then form a negative belief about themselves or the world which can impact on how they cope in the world.
Kinesiology can help children of any age and because children are open and still have wonder about the world, they easily see new possibilities and make changes quickly. Balances often take much less time with children than they would with adults.
Kinesiology identifies the key issues in your child’s life and provides real solutions and healing for them. In kinesiology sessions with children the parent stays in the room. The practitioner may ask you questions about you or your child’s development. Kinesiology gives you and your child the opportunity to change the way you handle stress in your life and for you to both enjoy this very precious time of their childhood.
Children who have experienced high stress levels may have trouble focusing, learning and achieving their developmental milestones. Kinesiology gives you and your child a very effective way of transitioning each of these hurdles in life. Dorothea can also teach you and your child simple activities to improve brain integration, coordination, help relieve emotional distress and activities that calm.
Children are not naughty or bad, they are just behaving in a way to get us to take notice and help them grow, change, develop and mature. Our job as parents is not to protect them from pain, but to walk beside them, supporting them to find ways of navigating lifes challenges.
While children may not really understand the process of kinesiology, they do know how they feel. They often report feeling more relaxed and happier.
Benefits of kinesiology for children:
- Better able to deal with anger and frustration
- Happier and calmer
- More focused and better able to concentrate
- Fewer and reduced reactions to foods and other allergens
- Better quality sleep
- Improved coordination and spatial awareness
- Better balance
- Improved results across sporting, academic and artistic areas
From Fear and Anxiety to Emotional Well-being
Many people find that anxiety or fear can stop them from doing things they want to do in life. These feelings may not occur all the time or even be overwhelming; there may just be feelings of background anxiety. For example, feeling panicked when something doesn’t go to plan, feeling anxious about a social situation or controlling situations so as to push away feelings of anxiety are pretty common. Because these feelings seem normal, people often don’t question them. For some people feelings of anxiety and panic can dominate their life and be quite debilitating.
Kinesiology work can make a difference in reducing the impact of these feelings in someone’s life. Neuroscience and trauma research suggests, that specific early experiences of fear particularly if experienced when very young create limbic brain responses that set up specific neural pathways which will operate unconsciously in adult life. Kinesiology aims to release the feelings locked in the system that relate to the time they were created. This gently frees up the system so people have freedom to choose how they react in any given situation. Another way of putting this is that the brain then begins to use different neural pathways in response to the same kind of trigger and this leads to different results.